In the society we live in today there is stress all around us. Most of us walk around stressed out almost every minute of every day. What a lot of people do not understand is how harmful this is for your body. Stress is not something we are supposed to deal with every hour of every day. It is supposed to be there for life threatening situations and that is it. We have altered stress into something unhealthy. The public is not informed on how much harm stressing yourself out really does to your body.

In everyday life, people do not walk around thinking about all the bad things that they are doing to their body. Most people are to caught up in their stress to worry about anything else. I think they have heard that stress can do bad things to your body, but no one thinks that it will happen to them. Also since a lot of the side effects of stress are inside the body people do not even know that they are happening. This day and age everyone has accepted the stress that stays with us every day. Society admires the people who can do 10 things at once and not seemed stressed. Chronic stress can cause your body to clog its arteries. This can lead to so many health problems. People do not realize that this comes from stress. This can lead to early heart attacks and many other health risks. Another terrible side effect is gaining weight in the abdomen region of the body. When your body is under stress all the time it stores fat in unhealthy ways. The western countries have an obesity epidemic and this chronic stress that we feel every day is playing a key role in this. One last thing that the public really needs to be educated on is the fact that chronic stress can eat away at your Telomeres. These sit on the end of your DNA strands so that they do not fray and unravel. Over time age does deteriorate these but the stress that we have on our bodies is making this happen very rapidly. The public needs to learn about these terrible side effects so that we can begin to look at stress in a different light.

We as a society need to work harder to see stress as something that does not need to follow us around. We allow stress to consume our life and that is not how it needs to be. We need to look at stress as something positive. We also need to find an activity that helps us disconnect and get away from all the stress. This can help your body so much. As a society, we need to be able to turn off the stress and just enjoy life. That way all the negative side effects do not affect our life too.